Improved washing-machine



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Mari? NFETERS. FHOTOALYHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON D C @met (tpica CHARLES P. SNOW, OFv FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 90,598, A:lated May 25, 1869.

IIMPROVED WASHIN-MACHINE The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern.: Y

Beit known that I, GHARLns P. SNOW, of the city of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-INIaobines; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s in both 'gures The nature o f this invention relates to improvements in washing-machines, andthe invention consis'ts in the arrangement,v within a suitable tank, of a series` of connected rollers, mounted on springs; above which is pivoted, with a sliding pivot, two arms, car rying a corrugated rubber board, which may by hand begiven a rectilinear and an oscillatingmovement over the rollers, thereby assimilating very nearly the operation of hand-washing. To enable others to understand the construction and operation of my invention, I willl proceed to desprings E, allowing vertical movement of the frame d,

and facility for taking it out of the tank A when necessary.

J represents -a series of rollers, having journals at each end and hearings in the side-pieces e e of the frame r1.

L L represent levers, connected at their outer end I versely to the leversL L, and presenting a. corrugated surface on the under side, which constitutes the rubberboard, and which may be given a rectilinear movement over the rollers J by means of the pulleys 0' running'in the ways w, the power being applied by hand at the hand-hold M. v

The levers L, where the slats y are attached, are curved downward, in order to have 'the said slats arranged on a convex surface, for greater facility in passing over the arti/cles being washed, and the levers, being pivoted at the pulleys 1', may be given an oscillating movement, to still further facilitate the operation.'

NVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rubbing-frame, consisting of the curved levers L, hand-hold M, slats y y, and rollers n., when constructed and arranged as shown, and operating in combination with the ways W, and spring-roller bed J'J, with guides C, in the manner and fortbe purposes herein set forth and described.

Signed at Freeport, Illinois, this 4tbday of December', 1868.

' CHARLES P. SNOW. Witnessesz S. F. AsPnrwkLL, `OSCAR TAYLOR. 

